12/07/2011 | |||||
7:30 am - 8:15 am | Registration and Breakfast | ||||
8:15 am - 8:30 am | IT Roadmap: Welcome and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
8:30 am - 9:15 am | The Future State: Balancing IT Fundamentals and Strategic Innovation to Drive the Enterprise Omer Siddiqui, CIO, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority At DC Water and Sewer, the past year has been all about innovation at the infrastructure level in order to be ready for the rapidly advancing technologies that will bring the agency into the future. With a service area of 725 square miles and a need to provide water and wastewater treatment services to more than 600,000 residents and 16.6 million annual visitors, the authority has a challenge in building the most efficient and transformational IT to serve its mission and constituencies. In this insightful presentation, hear how IT has created an environment that combines fundamental IT and technology innovation. | ||||
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Why Your Network is Poised to Thwart Your IT Progress Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks Are you:
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9:45 am - 10:15 am | Visibility: The Missing Ingredient in the Cloud Paul Hooper, VP of Marketing, Gigamon With the emergence of public, private and hybrid clouds, information now moves between physical and virtual environments and from private to public clouds, creating new challenges for IT. There has never been a more important time for IT organizations to have visibility of the traffic on their network. This session will discuss how to maintain and enhance the visibility that is essential for Enterprises to secure, monitor and manage their networks. | ||||
10:15 am - 10:35 am | Networking Break | ||||
10:35 am - 12:30 am | Morning Technology Tracks | ||||
10:35 am - 12:30 pm | The Public and Private Cloud | The Connected Enterprise | The Modern Network | The New Data Center | The Evolving Threat Landscape |
10:35 am - 12:30 pm | With virtualization and “as-a-service” offerings paving the way for efficient investments, we’ll explore how companies adopt public, private and hybrid clouds. | Savvy enterprises are weaving together VoIP, unified communications and dynamic WAN. We’ll explore how mobile technologies are supporting the distributed enterprise. | New technologies are flattening networks and modernizing communications by moving data traffic more efficiently. We’ll examine the path to cloud-friendly environments. | Data storage remains a key challenge for today’s IT leaders. We’ll look at how the move to blade servers, utility computing, unified fabrics and pooled storage creates agility for today’s dynamic business environments. | We’ll take a close look at how to defend the corporate fortress against new threats from today’s sophisticated cybercriminals and attacks. |
10:35 am - 11:20 am | Moving the Enterprise to the Secure Cloud Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research | How VoIP, UC, and Mobility are Enabling the Distributed Enterprise Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research | The Enterprise Network in the Era of the Cloud Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC | IT Transformation and Digitization: Key Drivers for Virtualized and Converged Data Centers Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage and IT Executive Strategies , IDC | Protecting Your Mobile and Virtual Environment from Emerging Security Threats Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research |
11:25 am - 11:55 am | Visibility in the Enterprise Extending into the Cloud Paul Hooper, VP of Marketing, Gigamon As private and public cloud opportunities receive more and more attention and adoption, how can the visibility that has successfully enabled monitoring and management of enterprise environments scale into the virtual world? In this session we will discuss the power of a "Visibility Fabric" and how it can provide insight into both the physical and the virtual world. | UC Roadmap Considerations in Higher Education Ed Martin, Deputy CIO , The George Washington University Students, staff, and faculty have greater overall access to wireless signal, and the end user expectation of convergence is rising at the George Washington University. Trends of telecommunications technology, user behaviors, cost changes, and demand shift are leading us to consider a converged model for telecommunications services delivery. In this presentation, Mr. Martin will describe the opportunity and risks of message convergence in higher education, and briefly outline the planned process to source selection and procurement at the George Washington University. | The Future of the Network: Preparing for the Paradigm Shift Brandon Porco, CTO, Northrop Grumman As organizations embrace the cloud, a massive paradigm shift is nearing that will force the transformation of networks and security. Join Brandon Porco, IT Solutions CTO for Northrop Grumman’s Technical Services and Information Systems sectors, for an overview of several key concepts that could change the landscape of network and security professions in the near future. | Time for a New Network Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks | Cybersecurity -- Navigating Next Generation Threats John B. Sapp, Jr., Senior Director, Information Security Product Management & Innovation, McKesson Corp. |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Growing the Enterprise in the Cloud: An Executive Panel with Zeus Kerravala Todd Sherwood, Deputy Director , National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Expeditionary Architecture IPO Paul Hooper, VP of Marketing, Gigamon | Enabling the Connected Enterprise: An Executive Panel with Robin Gareiss Ed Martin, Deputy CIO , The George Washington University | Solutions for a Modern Network: An Executive Interview with Rohit Mehra Brandon Porco, CTO, Northrop Grumman | Building an Effective Data Center Approach: An Executive Panel with Richard Villars Bob Bell, Chief Information Officer, Armed Forces Benefit Association Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks | Protecting Against Growing Enterprise Threats: An Executive Panel with Ted Ritter John B. Sapp, Jr., Senior Director, Information Security Product Management & Innovation, McKesson Corp. |
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | ||||
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | ||||
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Breakout Sessions: Track A | Breakout Sessions: Track B | Breakout Session: Track C | Breakout Session: Track D | |
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Track Moderator Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research | Track Moderator Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research | Track Moderator Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC | Track Moderator Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | |
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm | The Windows 7 and 2010 Imperative: Are You Ready? | Security and Performance in the Cloud: How to Overcome the Two Most Frequent Obstacles in Your Path to the Cloud Jeff Katzen, Sr. Manager, Cloud Business Solutions, Savvis Cloud computing remains center stage and for good reason. Now well beyond just the hyped up promise of providing greater business value, it is truly delivering IT agility and market responsiveness under a manageable cost model for many leading organizations. However, as global companies become increasingly driven to leverage cloud technologies to reap these benefits, questions and concerns around performance and privacy capabilities remain and have become costly obstacles in achieving a sound cloud strategy. This presentation will highlight capabilities to look for in selecting a cloud provider who can reduce the risk of cloud migrations. | Demystifying the Cloud With a Look at Hybrid Hosting and OpenStack Robert Collazo, Systems Engineer, Rackspace Hosting | Authentication in the Cloud- How to Combine Security, Convenience and Mobility Ray Wizbowski, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Gemalto During the 1990s, remote network access opened a new era for IT Managers. The advent of web access control and virtual private networks paved the way for secure and real-time access for executives, employees and partners. Today, these access solutions must evolve for both access and authentication. IT Managers must implement solutions that provide secure authentication to both on-premise and off premise applications. As off-premise data stores can hold highly sensitive information, encryption and digital signature are no longer options, they are mandatory! This session will review the challenges of user and administrator authentication to cloud-based applications and how “secure element” offers can provide easy-to-use and secure authentication across a host of form-factors, both desktop and mobile. | |
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm | Next Generation Mobility Solution - Beyond Just Connectivity Speed and Security Dilip Patel, Sr. Marketing Manager, Enterprise Networking Group, Dell, Inc. Other than secure and fast network, you need mobility solution that can provide differentiated service based on type of user, device and application with ability to scale from a consultant’s office to a multi-campus enterprise – and Dell can help. Please come and learn about the Dell PowerConnect W-Series Wireless solution. | Make the Most of Your Endpoint Protection with 4 Easy Ways to Stop Threats John Metzger, Endpoint Security Expert, Sophos Today’s threats are more sophisticated and targeted, making the data protection challenge even more difficult for IT managers. And, tight budgets and limited resources mean organizations have to do more with less. Join John Metzger of Sophos to learn 4 easy ways to use your AV to protect your data. | Cloud Computing – Ready for Primetime? Pat Patla, VP of Server Product Marketing , AMD For Government and global business today, more and more organizations must be able to function anywhere, anytime. Cloud is delivering on that requirement and as one of the pioneers in cloud technologies; AMD today runs a high-performance computing cloud that supports thousands of engineers worldwide with approximately 40 million jobs executed monthly. As an integral part of how AMD is able to meet expanding demand for IT resources, the cloud offers immense flexibility while helping to cut overall spending on hardware and data centers. In this session, you will hear from Pat Patla, AMD’s Corporate Vice President of Product Development talk about Cloud adoption in Private and Public Sector markets plus lessons AMD learned from building and implementing one of the largest private cloud implementations in the industry. | Unified Communications: A Killer App for Cloud Computing? Randy Cross, Director of Data Center Virtualization and Strategy , Avaya Networking Is unified communications one of the applications that is going to further drive the adoption of cloud computing? This session is an exploration of cloud business models as it applies to the emergence of Communications as a Service (CaaS). It will review the trends impacting businesses today, the technology which defines today’s Collaboration Era and will explore the role of virtualization in creating a consumer-like communications experience with enterprise reliability. The focus will be on Private Clouds from both an Enterprise owned and hosted perspective; however, there will also be discussion of Hybrid Cloud services created by integrating Public Cloud applications with Private Cloud based CaaS. | |
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Technology Risk Management-Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Automation-Integrating ESM with Network Access Control Darell Hawkins, Managing Director, Bank of New York Mellon Attend this session and learn how Darrell Hawkins, Managing Director, has lead the establishment and implementation of an automated GRC policy where the integration of network access control with security event and incident management (SEIM) provides a greater insight into suspicious activity across the network. Darrell will discuss how removing the burden of manually monitoring compliance issues allows his team to focus proactively on countering threats. | Making the Business Case for Unified Communications & IP Telephony Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research | Adding Intelligence to Enterprise Networks Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC | Enabling Business Class Cloud Computing Scott Cassell, Sr. Director of Ethernet Product Management, Comcast Business Services Due to today's business environment having continually evolving technological, economic, and business requirements. Cloud computing is fast becoming an integral part of a growing number of company's IT roadmaps. Cloud Computing offers the promises of consolidation, economy of scale, cost effectiveness in a shrinking budget environment, as well as advance software, services, and platforms that would not otherwise be available or viable to support for many businesses. A key component in the growth of Cloud Computing has been the evolution of Carrier Ethernet over the last 10 years. The Metro Ethernet Forum, telecommunications service providers, and hardware manufacturers have worked together to create a next generation transport model using ethernet as a medium that has facilitated the adoption and growth of Cloud Computing. Carrier Ethernet and Cloud Computing have formed a virtual partnership that has been proven to drive efficiency, allow for cost effective IT solutions, and provide businesses with otherwise unattainable hardware and software platforms. This virtual partnership will continue to evolve beyond our expectations and unlock technology that will revolutionize the IT roadmaps of tomorrow. | |
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Cocktail Reception and Prize Passport Drawing in the Expo (You must be present to win) |